[ A.G. Diedericks: “write what you know” are the four most soporificwords I’ve ever heard. I am a divergent writer who couldn’t give 2fucks about striving to be the best. To write only what you know, isto play it safe. Art is imaginative rebellion. I am engaged with theversatile risk takers, the ones who are not afraid to take their shoesoff & get dirty. I write & curate atMorality Park,”]

Really a great post! You nailed it! I like your “Write what you know” also! However, just to be a smart ass, is that permission to stay where we are or might that also be, from a different viewpoint, an encouragement to increase what you know about life and other things? Just asking. See, know you’ve got me going. So, isn’t wisdom, even if from common sense and the street, learning from the life and mistakes of others so we don’t have to “Learn the Hard Way” by falling into the ditch they told us was there?? For me I have found that reading others writings helps me look at some things I know in a different light.

Hi, Chuck! I really appreciate your in depth review of this poem. And yes, it’s a different vista. I write for Sudden Denouement because its a forum of “divergent” literature. If I ONLY wrote what I knew then I would get bored out of my mind. I submerge in various genres, styles, collaborations, content etc
Thank you for reading! I’ll check out “Breaking Rules”

Love this A.G.– the rhythm and the picture of Eminem is perfect (and you didn’t make me feel too guilty about going to an ivy league school! If it makes you feel any better, social workers don’t get much respect at a place like Penn. Half the shit in the bookstore says “Wharton”) “punktuated by subversion” is simply brilliant. loved “I am an alumnus/from the college of sacrilege.”